Total To Co-Preside Franco-Iraqi Business Council - French PM
July 02 2009 - 8:24AM
Dow Jones News
French oil major Total SA will jointly head up a Franco-Iraqi
business leaders' council, along with the Iraqi business leaders'
union, the French prime minister's office said Thursday.
Medef, the French business lobby, will run the secretariat of
the council on the French side, according to a common declaration
by Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri
Al-Maliki.
Fillon is in Iraq with a delegation of French business leaders
including Total Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie. The visit
is the latest step in France's energetic pursuit of business
opportunities in the country.
Total is one of several international majors positioning
themselves to help boost Iraq's oil output.
-By Adam Mitchell, Dow Jones Newswires, +33 1 40171756;
adam.mitchell@dowjones.com